DXP Enterprises (NASDAQ:DXPE – Get Free Report) and Standex International (NYSE:SXI – Get Free Report) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk and dividends.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
74.8% of DXP Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.4% of Standex International shares are held by institutional investors. 22.7% of DXP Enterprises shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Standex International shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares DXP Enterprises and Standex International”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| DXP Enterprises | $1.80 billion | 1.30 | $70.49 million | $5.28 | 28.34 |
| Standex International | $790.11 million | 3.91 | $55.76 million | $4.46 | 57.12 |
DXP Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than Standex International. DXP Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Standex International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares DXP Enterprises and Standex International’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| DXP Enterprises | 4.45% | 19.62% | 6.40% |
| Standex International | 6.20% | 14.29% | 6.44% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for DXP Enterprises and Standex International, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| DXP Enterprises | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Standex International | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2.80 |
DXP Enterprises presently has a consensus price target of $95.00, suggesting a potential downside of 36.50%. Standex International has a consensus price target of $281.33, suggesting a potential upside of 10.43%. Given Standex International’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Standex International is more favorable than DXP Enterprises.
Risk and Volatility
DXP Enterprises has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Standex International has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Standex International beats DXP Enterprises on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About DXP Enterprises
DXP Enterprises, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in distributing maintenance, repair, and operating (MRO) products, equipment, and services in the United States and Canada. It operates through three segments: Service Centers (SC), Supply Chain Services (SCS), and Innovative Pumping Solutions (IPS). The SC segment offers MRO products, equipment, and integrated services, including technical expertise and logistics services. It offers a range of MRO products in the rotating equipment, bearing, power transmission, hose, fluid power, metal working, fastener, industrial supply, safety products, and safety services categories. This segment serves customers in the oil and gas, food and beverage, petrochemical, transportation, other general industrial, mining, construction, chemical, municipal, agriculture, and pulp and paper industries. The SCS segment manages procurement and inventory vinventory optimization and management, storeroom management, transaction consolidation and control, vendor oversight and procurement cost optimization, productivity improvement, and customized reporting services. Its programs include SmartAgreement, a procurement solution for various MRO categories; SmartBuy, an on-site or centralized MRO procurement solution; SmartSource, an on-site procurement and storeroom management solution; SmartStore, an e-Catalog solution; SmartVend, an industrial dispensing solution; and SmartServ, an integrated service pump solution. The IPS segment fabricates and assembles custom-made pump packages; remanufactures pumps; and manufactures branded private label pumps. DXP Enterprises, Inc. was founded in 1908 and is based in Houston, Texas.
About Standex International
Standex International Corporation, together with subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of various products and services for commercial and industrial markets in the United States and internationally. It operates through five segments: Electronics, Engraving, Scientific, Engineering Technologies, and Specialty Solutions. The Electronics segment offers reed relays, fluid level, proximity, motion, flow, HVAC condensate, and custom electronics sensors; and custom wound transformers and inductors for low and high frequency, current sense technology, advanced planar transformer technology, value added assembly, and mechanical packaging applications under the Standex Electronics, Renco, and Agile Magnetics. The Engraving segment provides mold texturizing, slush molding tools, roll engraving, hygiene product tooling, and low observation vents, as well as project management and design services for stealth aircraft; and process machinery for various industries under the Piazza Rosa, World Client Services, Tenibac-Graphion, GS Engineering, and Innovent brand names. The Scientific segment offers temperature-controlled equipment for the medical, scientific, pharmaceutical, biotech, and industrial markets under the American BioTech Supply, Lab Research Products, Corepoint, Cryosafe, CryoGuard, and Scientific brands. The Engineering Technologies segment offers net and near net formed single-source customized solutions that are used in the manufacture of engineered components for the aviation, aerospace, defense, energy, industrial, medical, marine, oil and gas, and manned and unmanned space markets under the Spincraft brand. The Specialty Solutions segment manufactures and sells refrigerated, heated, and dry merchandizing display cases; and single and double acting telescopic, and piston rod hydraulic cylinders under the Federal and Custom Hoist brands. The company was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Salem, New Hampshire.
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